"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
10/13/2014 at 19:52 • Filed to: None
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"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
10/13/2014 at 19:52 • Filed to: None | 1
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Miller Motorsports this weekend has some things going on. I dont know what any of the cars are that are racing or if I can even show up and watch slackjawed. The websites reveal nothing.
Why do aftermarket headunit displays suck?! Its like they are stuck in the 80's with their sweet calculator graphics. How much would it cost to put in some actualy LCD screen instead of some lame old outdated crap?
HammerheadFistpunch
> Frank Grimes
10/13/2014 at 19:57 |
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There are words on this page...but the combination they've chosen to arrange themselves into is foreign to me.
Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> Frank Grimes
10/13/2014 at 20:00 |
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Usually it should boil down to cost to manufacture, and probably a bit for durability.
I'm also not a fan of these newer LCDs in my dashboard for longevity reasons, and LCD head units also exist, but they are quite a bit more expensive, since they're filled with more features than the regular old dot-matrix or whatever they're called.
beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> Frank Grimes
10/13/2014 at 20:03 |
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I had a sweet foldout LCD screen in my car 8-10 years ago. it even had RCA inputs and I plugged my N64 into it.
twochevrons
> Frank Grimes
10/13/2014 at 20:49 |
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They do exist. Years ago, I bought a Pioneer DEH-P6850MP. Aside from the excessively-bright blue lighting (which I hate with a passion), it is excellent, and its graphical OLED display definitely looks better than the calculator-style displays that most have. The combination joystick and rotary control knob works brilliantly, too – it's much easier than trying to find tiny buttons to switch tracks or radio presets.
It's getting a bit long in the tooth now – its iPod interface had weird compatibility issues with the first-gen iPod touch that I bought in 2007, and flat-out refuses to work with iPhones – but I I've still hung onto it (it's been in four of my cars so far) just because it works really well, and looks far nicer than most aftermarket units. Also, it has a built-in voltmeter, which was a lifesaver for keeping an eye on power consumption when I was trying to limp a car home with a failed alternator.
That said, I've looked at some of the fancy name-brand head units with touch screens and the like, and even if they have pretty graphics, the user interfaces are horrific. I want somebody like Apple (or even MS or Google) to make a head unit, and show them how it's done.
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Frank Grimes
> twochevrons
10/14/2014 at 02:03 |
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That is seriously good looking not just the display but the simplicity of it with its lack of millions of buttons and not tryin to look like transformers.
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Frank Grimes
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 02:07 |
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sorry it must be hard to keep two seperate questions with a paragraph dedicated to each seperate.
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Frank Grimes
> Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
10/14/2014 at 02:11 |
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Yeah I dont want something expensive or with hey look at me steal me looks but it would be nice if single DIN head unit displays could get with the times. I can buy a android tablet with a big nice 7" screen for $99 why cant a head unit have a much smaller screen in something that costs much more. It seems they are just lazy and add new features every couple years like ipod connectivity and bluetooth meanwhile it seems not much else changes and the screen is still old.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Frank Grimes
10/14/2014 at 02:22 |
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it must have been the random nature and the lack of sleep brain processing...I get it now, but it took me a few reads
Stef Schrader
> Frank Grimes
10/14/2014 at 03:18 |
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Ooh, NASA is fun times. Usually schedules get posted to regional? websites, but yeah—NASA's not the best about that and doesn't have the easiest website to navigate. They run a little bit of everything, TBH.
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twochevrons
> Frank Grimes
10/14/2014 at 08:07 |
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That's what I think, too. If the lighting and display colour could be changed and/or dimmed, it would be perfect, but unfortunately, blindingly bright blue is the only option.
Kylemaro
> Frank Grimes
10/14/2014 at 12:06 |
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the best aftermarket head unit i ever put in my 30 year old car is almost 25 years old. and i fucking love the retro ness of it
sadly its been broken for the last few years, i lost the wiring harness for it and i know nothing about these to rebuild it, anyone an alpine expert?